Accenture, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Accenture comes up
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 48:11 Steve Ballmer When Accenture became a company, we started a joint venture called Avanade to help do essentially the holy trinity to help install, because you had, we needed support infrastructure and partners who knew how to set up the servers,…
- ▶ 48:32 Steve Ballmer Uh, and that's why we started this thing Avanade with, uh, which is a big, big company at this stage with Accenture.
- ▶ 48:41 Steve Ballmer I went on the board of Accenture.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:16:12 David Rosenthal And at the time, the Northern California and Southern California big factions were battling each other, and they were each trying to develop their own proprietary EMR systems with software consultants, with like Accenture and stuff.
- ▶ 1:17:20 David Rosenthal You're spending all this money with Accenture and, you know, blah, blah, blah, all these consultants and trying to roll your own.
- ▶ 3:02:50 Ben Gilbert There's so many costs that get paid out to the consultants that Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, Nordic, the post-implementation people, the optimization people, the headcount internally,
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:40:14 David Rosenthal Their go to market and their business model is we sell these solutions to be operated in your data centers, in your infrastructure, where Accenture and all the consulting firms and all the value added resellers, they're all our partners.
- ▶ 3:40:53 Ben Gilbert Yeah, these Dell servers are running Windows Server, but Dell sold a bunch of servers, probably through Accenture, to the end customer.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 40:47 David Rosenthal Other companies in the partner network include Oracle, American Express, MasterCard, Accenture, and many more, including, friends of the show, Modern Treasury.
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:56:23 David Rosenthal They put out an RFP to folks like IBM, systems integrators, you know, the Accentures of the day, to go build this technology for them.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 40:55 David Rosenthal Like the, uh, Accenture to Arthur Anderson.
- ▶ 41:18 Ben Gilbert They had tax audit and consulting, and consulting became Accenture.
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:57 David Rosenthal All the accounting firms had attached consulting arms under the same roof, so Anderson had Anderson Consulting, which would go on to become Accenture after the demise of Anderson.
- ▶ 1:02:12 Ben Gilbert This whole thing took down Arthur Anderson, and what they did for the consulting arm was they rebranded it Accenture and spun it out into its own thing.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 58:07 Ben Gilbert Accenture said that workforce models with productivity anywhere are now used by 63% of growth companies.